[vbox-dev] serious VDI bug

[Perry Halbert]

I was curious and decided to test installing the 32 bit Win8 on a 64 bit 
host (Ubuntu-10.10 x86_64) with no VT-x
It fails.  It does work installing the 32 bit on a 64 bit host 
(Debian-7) with VT-x.
Only thing I notice is that is different is *no VT-x and IO APIC causing 
an issue for me.

I was amazed to see a Win8 32bit version to tell you the truth.  All I 
have been hearing is it would be 64Bit only.
But I wonder if  this is a real regression since the VBox forum is 
saying pretty much the same thing on a released version.


On 09/15/2011 10:42 AM, Huihong Luo wrote:
> 38746 is the one I am using too, but I am testing it on Windows 32-bit 
> host Vista os.
>
> The error occurs randomly, which never happened before. My hd is 
> highly fragmented, only have enough free space to hold about 8GB for 
> the new vm.
>
> I will test Linux version on the same hd to compare.
>
> --- On *Thu, 9/15/11, Perry Halbert /<phalbert at cox.net>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Perry Halbert <phalbert at cox.net>
>     Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] serious VDI bug
>     To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
>     Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 5:22 AM
>
>     I installed Win8 yesterday using VDI, SATA, and it went smoothly
>     SVN r38746 Debian 7 x86_64 host
>     Guest additions failed as I expected it would.
>
>     I actually installed it two times.  Deleted the entire build and
>     installed again to test.
>
>
>     On 09/15/2011 04:40 AM, Alexander eichner wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     the trim feature does not depend on the SSD flag but is a
>>     separate feature which needs to be enabled manually, the default
>>     is to disable trim ( everything else is a bug ;) )
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Alexander
>>
>>     Am 15.09.2011 um 09:43 schrieb Frank Mehnert
>>     <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>:
>>
>>>     Note: If you used a VDI file and activated the SSD flag then the
>>>     SVN
>>>     code will strip out unused code from the VDI file. As this code is
>>>     very new then this could be the reason for the problems you
>>>     observe.
>>>     Did you enable the SSD-Flag for the drive associated with the VDI
>>>     file?
>>>
>>>     Kind regwrds,
>>>
>>>     Frank
>>>
>>>     On Thursday 15 September 2011 09:12:18 Frank Mehnert wrote:
>>>>     Why do you think this is a regression? Did you try to install
>>>>     Windows 8
>>>>     with an older SVN version?
>>>>
>>>>     Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>>     Frank
>>>>
>>>>     On Thursday 15 September 2011 06:55:08 Huihong Luo wrote:
>>>>>     might be SATA controller bug too, as it is more stable when
>>>>>     using IDE hd
>>>>>
>>>>>     --- On Wed, 9/14/11, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     From: Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com>
>>>>>     Subject: [vbox-dev] serious VDI bug
>>>>>     To: "VirtualBox developer's list" <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org>
>>>>>     Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 9:16 PM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     trying to install Windows 8 to vdi image, and it fails
>>>>>     randomly. Seems
>>>>>     recent code changes have introduced a bug to vdi.
>>>>>     It stops at some random percentage of Windows expanding
>>>>>     phase,25%, 96%,
>>>>>     etc. It never succeeded, tried 5 times with today's SVN code.
>>>>>     vmdk/vhd works fine.
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